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• My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

  Norman Granz

  Artist, Genuine, Producers

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• Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

  Cyril Connolly

  Science, Artist, Technology

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• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Funny, Death, Party

  "As I Journey on: Meditations for Those Facing Death". Book by Cindy Rogers and Sharon Dardis, 2000.

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• Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

  Wim Wenders

  Music, Complaining, Hardship

  "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: 'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Pain, Attitude, Struggle

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• Homer no function beer well without.

  Matt Groening

  Beer, Ale, Funny Simpsons

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• Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Death, Effectiveness, Destroying

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.248, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Secret, Way, No Fear

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• A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Simple, Ideas

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

  Marilu Henner

  Brain, Wells, Whole

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• The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

  Norman Mailer

  Eugenics, Suffering, Levels

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• The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

  Herbert Simon

  Order, Goal, Designer

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• But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

  Arlen Specter

  Jobs, Judging, Our Society

  "Inside Politics" with Candy Crowley, edition.cnn.com. March 14, 2005.

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• The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Imagination, Strange, Strange Things

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• The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Heaven, Eternity

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• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

  Ida Rolf

  Order, Two Sides, Unity

  Ida P. Rolf (1989). “Rolfing: Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Memories, Believe, Memorable

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

  Anne Stevenson

  Art, Science, Hygiene

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• It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Art, Real, Science

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• To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.

  Rajneesh

  Masters, Owners, Breakthrough

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• Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Fear, Men, Religion

  "Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 376". Concurring opinion, 1927.

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• Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Victory, Purpose

  "The Place of Dead Roads".

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• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Pain, Growth

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• If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

  Morris West

  Truth, Men, Divine

  "The Heretic". Play by Morris West, 1968.

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